Chopin preludes impromptus claudio arrau biography

The Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau (1903-1991) was one of the last surviving depositories of 19^th century tradition if only because his teacher, Martin Krause, was a pupil of Liszt and indeed described the young Arrau as the greatest piano talent since Liszt.

Chopin preludes impromptus claudio arrau biography

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He gave his debut recital in Berlin in 1914 followed a year later by a Dresden performance of Liszt's second concerto under Nikisch. His American debut in 1923 was a disaster and it took until his Carnegie Hall recital in 1940 to make good the damage.

He was a man of wide interests with both intellectual resource (Cardus said that Arrau has his intellect in his fingers) and philosophical curiosity, who did his best not to specialise in his choice of repertoire. He was a supreme recording artist, (and not all musicians are) with his legacy scattered widely across the 78rpm era to LPs, forever exploring the Beethoven sonatas or embarking on yet further Olympian accounts of the great heavyweight concertos.

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